Community members in Greensboro gathered to honor the late Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., reflecting on his profound civil rights ...
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The new Hulu documentary explores how Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama used basketball to connect with people. Photo courtesy of @alexysthegreat on Instagram In honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
For 40 years, Martin Luther King Day has been a federal holiday. But with his legacy and landmarks of the civil rights era no longer set in stone, we thought it might be a good time to look back at ...
Video: East Lansing couple explains bus boycott, Rosa Parks and civil rights Dr. Eugene and Yvonne Pernell talk about Rosa Parks and the bus boycott during civil rights movement when they were ...
Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her death was announced Tuesday ...
Known as the “godmother of civil rights,” Dorothy Height fought not just for racial justice but for women’s equality.
In the nearly six decades since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement has reinvented itself time and again, moving from a fight to eliminate Jim Crow to more contested ...